Dig-darśinī ṭīkā of Jīva Gosvāmī

The Dig-darśinī is Jīva Gosvāmī's sixteenth-century commentary on the fifth chapter of the Brahma-saṁhitā. The name means "showing the direction": Jīva does not gloss every line to the end, he points out where to look. He opens with verses of his own, calling Sanātana his elder brother and Rūpa his refuge, and observes that the one surviving chapter stands to the whole saṁhitā as a sūtra stands to a work; then, on the first verse alone, he unfolds an entire study of the name Kṛṣṇa — with the etymology kṛṣ + ṇa and testimonies from the Padma and Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇas, the Gautamīya-tantra and the Gopāla-tāpanī — establishing what for the Gauḍīyas decides everything: Kṛṣṇa is not one of the descents but the one they come from. Each unit gives the verse and the ṭīkā, both with word-by-word glosses and a literary translation, followed by our commentary.